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As artificial intelligence continues to attract attention and investors, universities from Arizona State University to the University of Texas at Dallas are beginning to market undergraduate-level AI degrees to students.New graduates are entering a tough tech job market: Whereas a computer science degree was once seen as a golden ticket to a high-paying tech job, increased competition and major cutbacks across the industry now make it harder to land a tech internship or entry-level position.But AI students and professors hope that more specialized courses of study will contribute to better graduates.NBC News identified 13 major universities that have begun offering…

As artificial intelligence continues to attract attention and investors, universities from Arizona State University to the University of Texas at Dallas are beginning to market undergraduate-level AI degrees to students.New graduates are entering a tough tech job market: Whereas a computer science degree was once seen as a golden ticket to a high-paying tech job, increased competition and major cutbacks across the industry now make it harder to land a tech internship or entry-level position.But AI students and professors hope that more specialized courses of study will contribute to better graduates.NBC News identified 13 major universities that have begun offering…

Manama, July 29 (BNA): Jameel bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan, Minister of Labor and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Labor Market Regulatory Authority, underscored the Kingdom’s efforts to uphold human rights, ensure a stable working environment and fight human trafficking as part of the Kingdom’s inclusive development under the guidance of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and the government led by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. Commemorating the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30, the Minister stressed that Bahrain’s efforts in this regard have…

Just a few miles from the site of the next United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, for more than a century there is a neighborhood known as the “Black City,” where homes and factories were all stained with soot from the oil extracted and refined here on the shores of the Caspian Sea.Baku was the world’s first oil city; pioneering oil wells were drilled in the 1840s, followed by refineries from 1859. Alfred Nobel and his brothers arrived that decade, building a major oil industry and donating their considerable fortunes to the founding of the Nobel Prize. Baku…

Minority-owned small businesses in Baltimore and elsewhere struggling to access financing may be able to get help through a new public-private federal partnership announced Monday in East Baltimore.Commerce Department officials signed a national agreement with St. Louis-based nonprofit Urban Strategies Inc. to provide resources, including access to capital and technical support, to minority-owned businesses in Baltimore and about two dozen other metropolitan areas.These are “all of the challenges that minority-owned businesses have had historically,” Urban Strategies President Esther Shin said at an event in Perkins Square, a former public housing project owned by the city’s Perkins Homes that the nonprofit…

Manama, July 29 (BNA): Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, underscored the outstanding and comprehensive efforts the Kingdom is making to protect human rights and combat human trafficking, under the leadership of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and with the support of the government led by His Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister. In a statement marking World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, under the theme “No Child Left Behind in the Fight Against Trafficking”, the Minister…

About the author: Ashish Shah is chief investment officer and co-head of public investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.As 2024 began, interest rates had remained high for an extended period of time, geopolitical risks were rising, and secular megatrends were rapidly transforming industries around the world. Now halfway through the year, these trends are creating a complex environment of opportunity and risk. The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to start cutting interest rates in September. Other developed central banks have already begun to pivot to a rate-cutting cycle. Corporate balance sheets are strong, and while the cost of capital is…

Europe is experiencing a record summer of tourism, spurred by crowd-pulling events like Taylor Swift’s “Hellas” tour and the Paris Olympics, and a surge in social media posts of tourists sipping Aperol spritzes on Italian beaches and socializing on the Champ de Mars.If you are one of those people looking forward to traveling to Europe, you don’t want to be an American. Research the culture of your destination in advance and find out how its customs (country or region) differ from those of the United States. According to European travel guru Rick Steves, the goal of this research is not…

July 29, 2024 1:29 PM ETAside from the Paris Olympics, FIFA is also doing business with future hosts of the men’s World Cup, including Saudi Arabia.FIFA said on Monday it had received formal bids in Paris from representatives of its seven member federations, the exclusive bidders for the 2030 and 2034 World Cups.The 2030 World Cup will be co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco, as well as three neighbouring South American countries – Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, the first country to host the tournament in 1930 – and each will host one of the tournament’s 104 matches.Saudi Arabia is the…

JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 29, 2024–( BUSINESS WIRE )–GRM Information Management, a leader in physical and digital document management solutions, has seen a significant increase in the awarding of large-scale scanning contracts from major film and entertainment organizations in recent months.GRM has historically held a market leadership position in the entertainment industry, with nearly every major studio being a customer of GRM’s document storage, imaging, and digital enterprise content management (ECM) solutions offered through its sister company, VisualVault. Building on these relationships, GRM has recently secured a string of scanning contracts from these studios totaling millions of pages.GRM’s traction in…